WORLD NATION
He worries about landlord
looking to jac up rent for
b trying to re1oca1e: "I've
ot to find location before I can t
the 10 n money. nd they're
explo ting that."
He orries about h tle m
y they'll work for him cheap. They
Y he can bo the govemmentloan
officials a full-price bill, collect the
money and pocket the difference.
He worries about real estate
harpies looking to take advantage of
him jf he has to unload his one
rellWDlDg t: a bo in afIluent,
!argely BI�� Ladera Heigh ,worth
looking tor public
hou lng, 100 no
rt r '.
The Detroit Housinl Depart­
ment II looking to fill 1,000
apartments and townbo to
bOOIt occupancy rates.
-If you are looldDi for ho -
I we're lookiDi for you,- said
Henry Hagood, the citY'1
developmentdircctor, woo beads
a dty team w�DI with federal
officlala to improve public ho -
iDl·
·We want you, we're prepar-
log units for you and doing our
belt to maintain units for you.·
Tbe dty baa purged its public
OOUllDa waiting lilt aod iDltalled
18 pboDc)� to ltaD calla �m
pO
'en a d
churches and Iheltel1 to en­
courage low-Income people to
apply.
To apply for Detroit public
OOusin& call 833-5i78-9S, 8:30
a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through
Saturday.
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ith
boy
100 s about 9. T 0 can
co ted p Y paint it on
The boy, pro t
defaced a b j t bull ,
hand cuffed behind his bac •
"You can't 11 me they uld do
that to a kid in Tonanc:e," a ly
hite suburb, Jo n· d.
Sbortly the rio Jo n
had be felt obll to rebuild, to
Iho his pprecfation for the
comm ty that belped him aea a
JOOd life for his family. People lib
him arc "the cap of the area,"
he said, the tive role models
IOrelyneeded..
'No he'. mixed up, tbinking
about fleeina to a subwban boom
town, particularly if his low-interest
government loan don't come
through.
It's a common lltought for the
OWDCrs of destroyed businesses like
Terry" fUrniture, hicb operated
for 31 years just up the street,
Customers came from far �y
Las Ve , said Myron Steele, a son
of the founder. Now the Steeles
think they may take their insurance
money and rcopenelsewbere, maybe
in Lancaster, a Mojave Desert city
where they have longtime
custome .
"Look at it around bere,' Steele
aid, gesturing to the rubble-filled
'lots where the store had been.
"Who' going to come back down
here now unless things change? And '
who's got the money to change
things?"
he ste lea t lea t
dtClNBldr:' ��wn"/xMila ldtrrr4n1
, SOMEONE. somehow, needs to
provide jobs and affordable houses
in the area today, be said. "Look at
these people out there," JohDson
said. "Loo attbatpyj tstaDdin&
on the comer. All be'. JOt to look
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Law U� _charg_ ,
racial discrimination
DBTROrr (AP) - A federal court
lawsuit clwges one of Michigan'.
largeat residential property manage­
ment companies with racial di -
crimination, an attorney ys.
The law uit, filed by the Falr
- HOUllng Center of Metropolitan
Detroit and an Ann Arbor couple
alal.t' The Founnldable Group,
ya the center uncovered racial dla­
crimination in 46 percent oftbc casea
it _ted Involving the Fll'IJlin&ton
HUIa·baed company'. propertlea.
"It'. acro •• ·the·board dl.·
criminatory treatment in terma of
rental conditio.," said Victoria
Roberta, the attorney representing
the center.
The Fourmidable Group IDIDAFI
25 apartment comple� with more
than 12,000 units in 0aklaDd, Wa,.
and Wash1enaw counties, ICCOrc1In&
to the complaint.
DOUGLAS HYMAN, attomey
fo the company, rcfuled 10 com·
ment on specifics of tile cue, but
said the company followa federal fair
housing guidelinea.
"I think their minority accep­
tance rate would substantiate tIIIt
polley," said Hyman, a BirminaJwn
attorney. He said he didn't kn_ow the
S LAWSUIT, A10
c tomer
SClDCIllDaVjla. Brl
Yet be be UidCllt1md1
people ho have nothi ,with
prospee or nothln ould
caught up in the lootiDa.
A former car factoty employee
ho or ed hard for decade ,
lnding up thmore than $200,000
in 1nven ry, J n at the
gang members talkiD& loudly on the
comer. He particulady deap the
drug dealers he> aometIme:a came
into his store, bra about easy
money.
"They'd say, 'Do youkDo what
you can get for that .tuff DO ?'" be
recalled. "And I would ten them
they are selling death, pure and
simple."
Jolmlon blamea abe govet:nmcDt,
though. for not flDdlng ya to help
I
oldl
because of their ferocity In battle . mapped unchar1ed wildenaa.
and thd�., d,-ty COl" that
reminde� 2t1Je Cheyenne of a
buffalo's JDIDC. The men of the
Tenth accepted the term u a badge
of honor,
TREY :FOUGHT with
distinction in the Qeyenne War
from 1867�, the Red River War
of 1874-75, the Ute War of 1879,
the Apacbc Wm of 1875-86, and
the Sioux War of 1890-91. Afrlam
American soldiers received 13
,Medals of Honor during the
Wes1em Campaipa. CooaiItently
present in the otJidal reports of
their whi1e officers are the words
·bravery,· ·discipline,·
·��neas,· � "eDduraDCe.·
In addition to the Indian Wars,
A.frkan Americans played a key
role in the West' development
They isted civil autborltles in
maintaining law and order
--<:ontrolling!DO ,and punuing
outlaws, cattle thieves and even
Mexican revolutionari • 1bey
bullt renovated dor.eDI of Army
posts and camps, tnma thousands
of miles of telegraph linea, and
The Ninth IDd TeDtbRegimentl
went on to 'serve with Teddy
Roosevelt and the "Rough Riden·
in the Spanish American War.
During World War I, Buffalo
Soldiers served on the Me�can
Border. In World War n, the
regiments were part of the SecoDd
Cavalry Divi ion until their
decommissioning in North Africa
in 1944.
The Buffalo Soldier era ended in
19S2 with integration of the Armed
Forces 86 yem after tile regimen:
were commissioned. During that
period, the African I\merican
oldiers became one of the most
highly decoiated groups in U.S.
military history, accountiDi for
numerous unit citations and a total
of 22 individual Medals of Honor.
They labored and fought under a
veil of anonymity and prejudice
through most of their history, yet
maintained one of tbe lowe.t
desertion ra and best combat
recorda in the AriDy.
cut ome .
In ur nee had lway been
di cult to 0 and and ape ive
in South Central Lo Angeles.
Johnson ri ed oing i thout, a
gamble repeated by many other
iDoer-city buSinesses,
Bernard Kinsey, operations chief
of Rebuild LA, estima insurance
will co r only half the $1 billion in
damage that done during the
rio , mostly 10 sman businesses. A
force beaded by sta1e Insurance
Commi oner John Garamendi .
100 ing into reforms to make
insurance affordable and available in
the limer city.
BUT ALL THAT comes too late
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A TEAM OF WINNERSI- Oecar J. eotr.r. right. Preeldent of the NIIIIOIrMII
CMmber of Commerce, comee pertlclpanta to the Ch.mber'. 8th NIItIonIl ConferenCe I
NcentIy at Fort Worth, T.... WIth him •• from left, AI R.... , Public
Progra .... Ph Ip Monte Com .. nl_ Inc.. DevoycI Jennl .... ChaInMn. Fort Worth bpol n
Black Chamber of Conll1*ce Md Norma Ruby. PreeIdent, a-Ic Cone •• ICh Inc. • .net
" Preelclent of, the Fort Worth ...... opoI n Ch.mber of Commerce. A keynOte for the
conference. Aobert:a told d eg • vlbrlnt minority bueI community Ie vital to
add Ing th plight of our nation'. cftI
alu
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Tbe Department of Vetenma
AffaiD (VA) is commemorating
�uffalo Soldiers Day" July 28 in
honor of the mei:nary of African
American aoldim who served in
the U.s. Ninth and Tenth Cavilry
regimen from 1866 to 1952.
In tribute 10 their ervicc to the
nation, VA is placing miniature
American flap on the graves of
·Buffalo Solc11el'l" in national
ccmeterica aaou the country.
half of the 19th century.
VA IS PLANNING
commemorative ceremonies at
Fort McPherson National
Cemetery in Nebraska, Natchez
(Miss.) National Cemetery, Wood
National Ceme1ery in Milwaube,
and other locations. At 'Fort
Leavenworth National Cemetery,
VAwillpaym��to�Htt�
a Buffalo Soldier who received the
Medal of Honor for his service in
the Spanish-American War.
PuIaIkl County. Ity., in 185S, SgL
Woods helped &aft the lltes of
several mcmbell ofhia company in
action against Apaches in 1881
duriD& the lDdlan campatp. '
Recognizing the military,
service of AfrIcan Americana
during the Civil War, Congtaa
eDIC1Ied legillatioo July 28, 1866,
creating six (later reduced to four)
regular Army regiments �f
Afrlcan-Amedcan eDlIsted soldiers
under the command of white
oflice • ThcIe became the 24th
and 25th IDfan1ry and Nlntb and
Tenth' Cavalry pments, the
latter two headquartered at
Greenville, LL, and Leavenworth,
Kan., respectively.
Flap will be flown from July
25, when the Buffalo Soldier
Monument at Fort Leavenworth,
Kan., is formally dedicated by
General Colin Powell, chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, through
July 28.
The Buffalo Soldier Monument
honors tbose who served in
African-American. regiments of the
regular U.S. Army formed bortly
,after the Civil War, particularly
those veterans who served with the
u.S. Ninth and Tenth Cavalry
Regiments during the Indian Wars
and opening of the estern Uni1ed
States to settlement during the last
In California, the Avenue of
Flags will be flown at VA' Los
Angeles National Cemetery where
21 Buffalo Soldiers are buried. San
Francisco National Cemetery will
bonor 'i'16 Buffalo Soldiers buried
there, uidudiDg Medal of' Houor
recipient Pvt. William H.
Thompkins, a comrade of Pvt. Fitt
Lee.
Mill Springs National Cemetery
i� Nancy, Ky., will honor the
memory of Medal of Honor
recipient Sgt. Brent Woods of the
Ninth Cavalry. Born a slave 'in
All 12 companies of the Tenth
ere orpniU4 by the SUlDJJleI of
1867, and the majority of their men
mustered to combat hostile
Cheyenne . Indians along
Kansas-Pacific Railroad lines.
They soon engaged the Cleyenne
in a eries of .tirml.he and
8refi aDd tile peet of
the Indian ani ho dubbed
them "Buffalo aoldl " reputedly
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